Events
3-6 April 2024
Co-Organized by Gregg Mitman and Emmanuelle Roth
Extraction and Its Ecologies: Inhabiting Fragmented Landscapes of Health.
A Workshop Sponsored by European Research Council Advanced Grant, “Fragments of the Forest” and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)
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5 December 2023
Gregg Mitman
“Ebola in a Stew of Fear: From Urban Wet Markets to the Guinean Forests of West Africa,”
Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin.
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21 November 2023
Emmanuelle Roth & Gregg Mitman
“Fragments of the Forest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Endangerment in the Making of a Hotspot,”
Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden).
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2-4 November 2023
Emmanuelle Roth
“Figures de la zoonose en temps de crise : Préparer à Ebola après Ebola en Guinée.”
Congress of the French Association of Ethnology and Anthropology, Paris (France).
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26 October 2023
Emmanuelle Roth & Gregg Mitman
“Fragments of the Forest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Endangerment in the Making of a West African Hotspot.”
African Anthropology Seminar, University of Oslo (Norway).
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20-21 October 2023
Shadrach Kerwillain & Gregg Mitman
“Disease as a Silver Lining? The Troubled History of Biodiversity and Health in the Upper Guinean Forests of West Africa.”
Integrating the History and Philosophy of Biodiversity: Narratives of Diversity, Extinction, Conflict and Value, Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels (Belgium).
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13-14 October 2023
Emmanuelle Roth
“The ‘truth about Ebola’: Knowing and doing zoonosis in post-outbreak Guinea.”
Workshop on Zoonoses, multi-species transmission of pathogens and pandemic preparedness, University of Bergamo (Italy).
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17-22 September 2023
Emmanuelle Roth
“Viral surveillance in bats and its impact after the 2013-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.”
Poster presented at the African Small Mammals Symposium in Swakopmund (Namibia).
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26-28 June 2023
Gregg Mitman
“A Virus and the Forest: Yellow Fever and the Remaking of Alliances Among LivingThings.”
Lead Paper, Making and Unmaking Africa: Global Developments and Environmental Humanities, Osun State University (Nigeria).
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1 June 2023
Gregg Mitman
“Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin.”
Sciences Po, Paris (France).
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18-20 April 2023
Gregg Mitman
“Bloodborne: Chasing Ecologies and Power Across Viral Divides”
Pt. 1 – The Monkey Books
Pt. 2 – Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin
Pt. 3 – Ebola in a Stew of Fear
Lawrence Stone Lectures, Department of History, Princeton University
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11-14 April 2023
“Rescaling One health: Epidemic prevention and its disjunctive futures in West Africa”
Annual conference of the UK Association of Social Anthropologists, London
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21-23 March 2023
“Nimba Offers Opportunities for Scientific Tourism”: Scientific Visions and Temporary Sights in a West African Hotspot
Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi
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21-23 February 2023
Extraire des chauves-souris du Mont Nimba: Infrastructures minières et « points chauds » en Afrique de l’Ouest
Écologie, Santé et Sociétés en Afrique conference, Dakar
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Presentations
4 November 2022
Gregg Mitman
From the City to the Jungle: The Remaking of Yellow Fever in West Africa
Rural and Agrarian Disease Knowledge workshop, Cambridge University
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8-10 June 2022
Emmanuelle Roth
When epidemic anticipation becomes a job: Understanding, planning, and hoping for Ebola’s return in post-outbreak Guinea
Afterlives of Epidemics conference, University of Oslo
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21-24 April 2022
Emmanuelle Roth
Controlling the Reservoir of Ebola: Shifting Epistemologies of Epidemic ‘Latency’ in the early 21 st century
Annual Conference of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Saratoga Springs